This book on the German academy in the Wilhelmian and Weimar periods is a monument to scholarly craftsmanship, flawed only by the author’s infection with a disease similar to one he diagnoses in his subject—an excessive concern with pure Geist. …
These volumes, the product of extensive meetings by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Seminar on Race and Poverty, are just about the best items in the copious literature on poverty, which has been a minor growth industry ever …
Noam Chomsky dedicates these essays “to the brave young men who refuse to serve in a criminal war.” This dedication reflects the tone and mood of the entire book, which is a record of Chomsky’s increasingly outraged response to the …
Civil disobedience is often hailed as an eloquent method of protest, a way of arousing the moral conscience of society. But today it can also be used by some students and black militants as a weapon in an assault on …
President Nixon’s speech on November 3rd almost certainly rallied a majority of the people behind his policy. But that vote of confidence is strictly limited as to time, as on a similar occasion Lyndon Johnson discovered; and if, as seems …
The construction industry, as anyone knows who has tried to build himself even the tiniest summer place, is one of the most backward in the country. Obsolete building codes, “political peddling,” restrictive practices of builders and contractors, the practices of …
Dodge Main, an ungainly collection of four- and six-story, 1920s-genre factory buildings, occupies roughly a square mile of Hamtramck just across the Detroit City line. The front-office windows are wire-meshed against some feared assault, or perhaps just against small boys …
There’s a beguiling quality to the style of Fidel Castro. Surely we have never known another Communist chieftain like him. Here is a leader in the Soviet Union’s “family” of nations, hailed in Moscow each May Day, who yet lashes …
The Western German election this past September could mark a turning point in the political history of a country dominated, since its inception, by conservative forces. A positive answer has been given to two important questions: (1) whether the strategy …
On a pleasant Sunday last fall, 150 black groups marched up Seventh Avenue from 111th Street in New York City’s first Afro-American Day parade. Miss Black America and Adam Clayton Powell were on hand, as were a marching band from …
Editor: In Professor Robert J. Christen’s Comment on the NYCLU and the Ocean-Hill Brownsville dispute which so sadly shook that organization [DISSENT September–October 1969], he quotes me as calling for the ACLU “to go beyond the traditional civil liberties concerns …
In November 1968 the United Federation of Teachers was in the final stage of the longest and most acrimonious strike in its history, one the leadership saw as a “struggle for survival,” but which a wide variety of commentators, vocal …
Volume XV: 1-96, January–February 1968; 97-192, March–April 1968; 193-288, May–June 1968; 289-368, July–August 1968; 369-464, September–October 1968; 465-560, November–December 1968. Volume XVI: 1-96, January–February 1969; 97-192, March–April 1969; 193-288, May–June 1969; 289-368, July–August 1969; 369-464, September–October 1969; 465-560, November–December 1969.
The South has continued to change. The Klan and Citizens’ Councils were on the wane, were less relevant as the society seemed increasingly in a state of flux from the effect of new and contradictory forces at work on it. …
AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS, by Noam Chomsky. New York: Pantheon Books. 404 pp. $7.95. NOAM CHOMSKY dedicates these essays “to the brave young men who refuse to serve in a criminal war.” This dedication reflects the tone and …
